Investors, operators, and technologists.

Team members

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  Colby Raden

  Colby is a technology operator and investor with over two decades of experience scaling businesses. At Meta, he led go-to-market organizations across sales, partnerships, analytics, and growth marketing, and built the AI platform that powered Meta’s business marketing to hundreds of millions of businesses globally. Earlier, at Google, he built Google Cloud’s first scaled partnerships organization, responsible for billions in revenue and for supporting customers’ early adoption of cloud computing.

  He began his career in finance, including as a private equity investor at Littlejohn & Co., where he invested in middle-market businesses undergoing fundamental change. His focus on entrepreneurs and small businesses began with the packaging manufacturing company his grandfather and father started in Kansas. Colby is a graduate of Duke University and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three boys.

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  Nick Talwar

  Nick is a technology executive and entrepreneur with two decades of experience translating advances in software, ML, and AI into operating performance and enterprise value. At Microsoft, he developed search and recommendation algorithms for Windows features that reached more than one billion users worldwide. As founder of Bottega8, he has served in board-appointed CTO roles, led product and engineering organizations, and worked with investors and management teams on technology diligence and business transformation.

  He combines executive accountability with hands-on engineering, connecting the investment case for agentic AI with the governance, operating discipline, and evidence of reliability required to deploy it at scale. He earned an engineering degree from Duke University, where he conducted research in computer vision and neural networks.